Vociferous Rhapsody

Ok, if you were to stumble across a website full of red, white and blue, with a logo that used the Statue of Liberty, you’d assume that you’d found something good, wholesome, and, well, maybe just truthful? The first thing that drew my attention to the fact that this web site wasn’t what I expected… Continue reading Americans for Truth. Really?

I’m sure that many of us here in the United States hears what the major news media wishes to report about Mexico. The war between the drug cartels has escalated into insanity, and hundreds of innocent bystanders are murdered each month. The graphic photos opportunities are enough to chill one to the bone, and make… Continue reading Mexico is not a dangerous country

Anyone who has read my comments on this blog has probably come to the conclusion that although I do have some conservative republican views, for the most part I’m a mixed up DemoLiberCrat. (Democrat/Libertarian). There’s also a fairly broad streak of Independence in there too, although that’s not really a political party. However, I definitely… Continue reading Apparently, I’ve been living in a cave ….

When I was a kid, practically everyone in town ended up going to the public school. There was the odd private school – the local Seventh Day Adventist church had one where I attended 2nd and 3rd grades, and I believe there was a Catholic school, but by and large, all the kids went to… Continue reading Is Public Education an Oxymoron?

Our government is a representative republic. It’s not democratic, most people fail to distinguish between the two. In a democracy, everyone gets one vote. In the United States, we do get one vote, but we vote for Senators and Representatives, and the people we elect then are free to vote however they please on whatever… Continue reading My Congressman Does Not Represent Me

I’ve been gone the last few days, attending the wedding of my daughter. As much as I grumbled and griped about the waste of money on what is essentially a one night party, there is an underlying pride in the fact that I am playing my part in never-ending march forward of our culture and… Continue reading Out with the old ….

Today, on the way in to work I heard a story on NPR about children who are staying in their parents home well into their 20’s. A young man was interviewed, and he sounded sincere, and I can sympathize with him on the fact that times are tough, jobs may be hard to find, and… Continue reading Grow up, kid

One of the worst things about being young is that a young person often has no concept of “tomorrow”. Because of this, they also can’t imagine themselves growing old. It is absolutely impossible for them to imagine that the old person giving them advice was once young like them. There are lots of things I’d… Continue reading Dance in the rain

On the way in to work the other morning, I heard a news story about the upcoming ban on Foie Gras in the state of California that takes effect on July 1st of this year. The law was actually passed eight years ago, with a delayed effective date so that producers of the delicacy might be… Continue reading Keep your hands out of my plate!

The Washington Post published a story where Mitt Romney’s classmates recall a string of incidents perpetrated by Romney that would be classified as incidents of bullying. One incident in particular was mentioned wherein Romney was the guy holding the scissors when the group he was with chased down a young man, and despite his desperate… Continue reading The Bully

Overlooked today in the aftermath of the news of President Obama stating that he thinks gays should be allowed to marry are the results of some unique surveys that show a majority of us think that our Defense budget should be deeply slashed. As of 2011, the United States military spending was $711,000,000,000 dollars. That’s… Continue reading Why are we the worlds’s policemen?

When I was a child in school, we learned about significant inventions of the industrial age that changed the world. Things like the steam engine, the automobile, the airplane, radio and television, the cotton gin, the light-bulb, the telephone, the telegraph, the mechanical reaper, photography, motion pictures, the gatling gun …all of these important inventions that… Continue reading In My Lifetime